Personally, I think his chief adviser on this issue was Satan. Up until then he had been a defender of the Catholic faith. It was only when he wouldn't listen to lawful authority and decided that he knew best what he needed (which sounds like everyone of us when we decide to sin instead of following God) that he sought a way to break the Church in England away from the Catholic Church.
Henry VIII.
The Roman Catholic Church.
Henry VIII wanted to break with Rome, but not the Catholic religion. The Church in England, at least during Henry's reign, remained Catholic in theology and liturgy. After the break and until Henry's death, the Protestant religion was still illegal in England.
Roman Catholic AnswerHenry VIII did not break with the Catholic Church for money.
No king has ever replaced a pope as head of the Catholic Church. Henry VIII did break from the Catholic Church and formed what is the Church of England but which is not a Catholic Church as it is not in union with Rome.
He opposed Henry VIII's break from the Catholic Church.
He opposed Henry VIII's break from the Catholic Church.
It undermined the power and authority of the pope.
It undermined the power and authority of the pope.
because the pope would not grant him a divorce
King Henry VIII separated the English Church from the Catholic Church when the pope refused to grant King Henry a divorce. By forming a separate church, of which he was the head, he could grant himself a divorce.
When Henry became Head of the Church in England, he confiscated property which had previously belonged to the Catholic Church. The wealth then became part of the Royal Treasury.